St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-12

whipped hounds. If you don want us
to go down in the fight against powerful
and cruel foes, if you want us to con-
Quer, now is the day and now is the
hour. The day you send Lord Lans-
downe home with the stamp of Canadian
disatfection on his brow, you will enable
us to laugh at coercion and strengthen
the arms of Gladstone to put an end TO
evictionS for all time. j will not call up
the ghostly memories that haunt the
LanSdoWne estate from other days,
but just look at what is
passing at this moment. Lord
LanSdOwne is laying waste an entire
stretch of country miles long as com
pletely as if the angel of death knocked
at every cabin door in these valleys and
| devoted every man, woman and child
to destruction. AS soon as he will have
obtained his next batch of ejectment
decreeS he will have made a clean sweep
of the property, and, except Lord Lans-
dOwne's own bailiffS and creatures, the
whole population will have been BAN
iShed and their homes will know them
no more" Mr.. O'Brien quoted lengthy
reports from the Dublin Freeman of
THE EJECTAiENTS
from Lord Lansdowne'S estates with
headings such as lone Hundred and
Twenty People Evicted," "SiXty People
Made Homeless" zone Hundred and
Seventy Human Beings Evicted," and
so on. Then he described incidents at
tending some of the evictiOnS, in which
the aged, infirm and sick were thrown
out of their cabins, helpless, in some
cases. He proceeded: ''When the dis
pute arose the tenants owed only half
years rent, after all the frightful losses
OF the past seven years. One years
rent should be due before eviction can
take place, and unworthy attempts have
been made to make the Canadian people
understand that one years rent was due.
The second half years rent said
to be due, but Whiclx was not,
was mere lawyers myth, illegal fiction
known as the hanging gate. The Luga-
curran tenants were honest, peaceful
and inOtfenSive. SO far as crime is con-
cerned, the locality is simply stainless.
During these barbarOuS eVictlOnS not
blow was struck or stone flung, and
what have these people ever done that
they should deserve to be robbed Of
home and land? Simply sought abate-
ments on their rents, abatementS less
than Earl Cowper'S royal commission
a landlord commission appointed by
Tory vernment-declaredt to be equit-
able; less even than the land commits
sion courts are granting on neighbOring
estates, and, finally, reductions to which
Lord
LANSDOWNE'S OWN ARBITRATOR
Mr.. Denniug gave his assent and APP
proval in black and white. In proof of
this Mr.. O'Brien quoted DEGREES in
abatement of 40 to 80 per cent. on the
estates of Lords Castled0wne, McMur-
raugh and Cavanaugh, whereas Lord
LanSdowne's tenants only asked an
abatement of 30 per cent, and would
have accepted 20, or even the Is per
cent. which the LanSdOwne agent him
self suggested. Mr.. Trenchs own
agent gave precisely that reduction ON
a neighboring estate at the time Lord
Lansdowne was proclaiming ''No
quarter to the Lugacurran tenants.
81 claim, therefore, he said in con-
clusion, 'that Lord Lansdowne stands
condemned and that the justice and
moderation OF the tenants claims are as
CLEAR AND CONVINCING
as ever Gods blessing shed upon
righteous cause. When the tenants
closed with MI. Denning's offer, Lord
Lansdowne construed the tenants
measure into weakness. He construed
Canadian fOrbearance into Indifference
of the suffering in Ireland, and the
terms his chosen representative Sug-
geSted and agreed to were Scornfully
thrust aside. The next news we got
threatened us with hot, if not bloody
reception if we ventured to Canada to
proclaim the wrongs of the Irish ten
antry. l appeal to the people of
Canada against Lord Lansdowne'S say
age sentence against the whole peaceable
population. Substantially, the Cana
dian flag f1Oated over the evicting army,
and it was Canadian money that hired
the emergency men to do their dreadful
.O,.lv / onl1 To
dian name from this and to let Lord
LanSdOwne and the whole world know
that when Canada stretched out an arm
to Ireland it was not to wound or sub
jugate her, but to save her." Mr..
O'Brien closed with
A GLOWING PICTURE
of Ireland's gratitude to Canada when
home rule should be achieved, and was
cheered again and again. Before leav-
ing the hotel for the meeting Mr. O'Brien
sent the following telegram to Mayor
Rowland, of Toronto: Il perceive you
have convened meeting of citizens of
Toronto to demand an official prOhibi-
ton of my meeting. If you will, in fair
play, procure me a hearing. [ shall eS-
TEEN it privilege to attend your
meeting to explain the motives and OBJ
ject of my visit.'
After arriving at the hall and before
the meeting opened Mr.. O'Brien drew
up the following resolution which, after
he had concluded his address, was
passed amid an outburst of cheering:
''ReSOlved, That this meeting of the
citizens of Montreal is Of the opinion
that Lord Landowners contemplated
depopulation of the Lugacurran estate
is unjust, cruel and oppressive, and de-
serves the condemnation of every Can
adian."
At the conclusion of the meeting
O'Brien. responding to vote of thanks,
said: I'VE were threatened if we dared
to come here that we might never get
away alive. Lansdowne must now be-,
lieve to the contrary. If he does not 1
can only pity him, for he has neither
eyes nor ears The resolution con-
demnatory of LansdoWne was cabled
Lagacurran tenantry, after which the
entire audience stood up and joined in
singing ''God Save Ireland" and hiss.
ing and groaning for Lansdowne. The
vast crowd went to the railway station.
where they met Dennis Kibride, an
evicted LansdOwne tenant, and escorted
him amid cheering to st. Lawrence hall,
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